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Martina Anderson MEP

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Following the resignation of Bairbre de Brún from her seat as MEP for
the Six Counties, Derry based MLA and Junior Minister in the Stormont executive, Martina Anderson, was selected by the Party to replace her.
She officially became the Six Counties MEP in June 2012.

Martina Anderson is from the Bogside area of Derry, and was born
in 1962. She has been involved with the Irish republican struggle for
over thirty years. Having spent over thirteen years as a political
prisoner in prisons in England and Ireland she was released in 1998
under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and immediately became
involved in working in Sinn Féin.

She was part of the party’s political management in the Assembly
in Belfast, and then for almost three years she served as the party’s
All Ireland Political Co-ordinator promoting, upgrading and
mainstreaming the All Ireland agenda. Following the 2006 Ard Fheis
(Congress), at which the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD
indicated the priority of developing an entirely new relationship
with unionism Martina was appointed to the role of Sinn Féin’s
Director of Unionist Engagement. This is a task she has pursed with
vigour, leading to a number of first public meetings between the
party leadership and churches and opinion makers within unionism.

She was elected in 2007 as an Assembly member for the Foyle
constituency, representing her home city of Derry, at which point she
was nominated as one of the first Sinn Féin members of the Policing
Board. In 2011 she was made Junior Minister in the office of First
Minister & Deputy First Minister, working alongside her party
colleague Martin McGuinness.

In May 2012, she was proposed by the party’s Six County
Executive as replacement for Bairbre de Brun as the party’s Member
of the European Parliament.